Fletcher in The Escapist
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006 - 12:04pm
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/33/8
This issue of the Escapist has an article by our very own Fletcher! I just thought I'd drop a note to the forums so we could all vicariously bask in the glory. Congrats!
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You beat me to this by two minutes. Damn you, ye of the cute dog avatar!
Congrats, Fletch! The article turned out fabulous. I hope you get to write for them again.
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Nice job, Fletch.
I like The Escapist. I just hate the web design that completely ignores the possibility of font sizes overriden on the browser end (on my laptop's 1680x1050 display, I increase the minimum font size so's I can actually see it, and so the text overflows behind the menu and outside of the image background).
Thankfully they have a PDF version to read, but it would still be nice for a more thoughtfully designed web interface.
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Good Job Fletch!
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Excellent article. Your writing just keeps getting better. Great job!
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Nice job Fletch, no creepy avatar there I see.
BTW, "Jenny Cartwright"? Come on, that has to be made up!
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I've done that too - only thing that bothers me there is that there's no way to navigate from one page to the next in the text version.
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That was a great article.. Fletch is holding out on GWJ though.. he saving the A+ stuff for "the others"
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"You just checked in to Hotel Califoni-getyourasskicked!" Steely Dan said to The Eagles
Yes - what I mean is going from one article to the next.
It's just a little annoying to go to the text version, read it, then go back and Next-Next-Next-Next through the article's regular version to get to the next article.
Maybe there's a better way that I'm missing, but like I said, I just started reading the PDF version.
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Very cool. Thanks for the link Pyro, and thanks for the interesting article Fletcher.
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Good article and all, and I love Fallout as well, but don't you think should have given Anthrax more credit than Sting? Those guys pulled no punches! Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure the Kroft puppets made a contribution.
Seriously, that was my favorite bit of the article.
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Kick ass article, and one that resonates deeply with this Cold War kid. Makes we want to go back and finish Fallout.
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I almost posted this, and now it's been done anyway, which I expected.
Rock on Fletch.
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Excellent article, Fletcher. A thoughtful illustration of why games matter.
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Well writ, Fletch, and congratulations.
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Great article Fletch, wtg!
Hmmm... seems like I should rent 'The Day After'!
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Well done, Fletcher. Am I the only one that didn't know of his affiliation with TSS?
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Thanks for the comments y'all. I hope that this is but the first of many. So do my creditors.
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Beautifully-done, Fletch. Here's hoping there are more.
I've seen The Day After, if by "seen" we can refer to the last eighteen seconds or so. I've been meaning to rent it because I, too, am a post-apocalypse junkie. I guess I have no more excuses.
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You done good, Fletch. You done... right.
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I don't know if this needs to be said or not - hopefully it's apparent - but we absolutely love seeing people who essentially donate their time, efforts, and talents to GWJ find success alongside, and hopefully as a result of, the work they do here. An outstanding and creative article, to be sure. Fine work, sir.
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Have to admit, this guy's article title's catchy. I've got the soundtrack to Full Throttle stuck in my head.
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Heaven help us. I like the 10-post thread discussing what appears to be a typo. I lurve teh intarweb.
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I bet the boys at NMA are having a field day with this one. Fletch, is the title an homage to the long standing community favorite post-apoc fansite (duckandcover.cx), or is it just one of them pop cult references that I so frequently miss?[/i]
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I am busy chalking up my question to the latter.
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